- On this day in 1962 the US set off Starfish Prime, the largest nuclear weapon ever exploded in space. It created an EMP that knocked out electronics across Hawaii & damaged or destroyed up to a third of the satellites in low-Earth orbit. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-50th-anniversary-of-starfish-prime-the-nuke-that-shook-the-world 735 comments space
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- Starfish Prime - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/starfish_prime 83 comments
- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/no-a-nearby-supernova-wont-wipe-us-out/ 28 comments
- Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #62 - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KZoic9vg1fw#t=925s 4 comments
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